Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee is scheduled to inaugurate a digital planetarium at the North Bengal Science Centre at Matigara in this town's outskirts on Friday.

Mukherjee would arrive at Bagdogra airport at 2:45 pm by a special flight to inaugurate the digital planetarium, the first of its kind in the eastern region, and return to Delhi, Science Centre sources said today.
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The Director General of the National Science Museum, G S Routea, would be present on the occasion, they said.
The finance minister does not have any political engagement, president of Darjeeling Congress (Plains), Shankar Malakar said.
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